Shipwrecks of the Lakes - Taschenbuch

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Scholastic, 1998 A photo of this book is available. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. 206 pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Written from the point of view of a young passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, this title combines an award-winning series with the "disaster of the century". Annotation In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking. . Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Scholastic, 1998, New York, New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ; 300 pages with index; First Edition/First Printing; Black & white illustrations; Book block is tight with no names and no marginalia; Has small rub mark on one page (page 15), light wear at bottom-edge of back-free endpaper/paste-down endpaper & feint marks to fore-edge; Teal-colored boards with a black-cloth spine and title in silver to spine; Unfaded pictorial dust-jacket with no tears and modest shelf and edge wear including light wear to base of spine; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable, clear mylar cover; . (A masterful cultural analysis of the Titanic disaster, including a clear-eyed examination of the ways in which meaning and marketability can go together. Dr. Biel demonstrates with wit and insight that from the moment the Titanic sank, it became a vessel for some Americans' extreme notions about commerce, politics, gender, race, class, technology and theology by sharing the shifting interpretations of generations. For example, Protestant sermons used it to condemn the budding consumer society stating things such as "we know the end of .the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster". African-American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich, while others found heroism and order in the tale. Yes, the Titanic disaster still echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical and fascinating America.)., W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996, Penguin Books Ltd, 2001. in8 Broché. Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt into the Americas. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest aspirations: Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. Worse, they are forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden. The year is 1857 and the study of geology is beginning to make serious inroads into areas of religious doctrine. When the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson runs across a scientific treatise that puts the age of Silurian Limestone somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100,000 years, he is scandalised: "This was despite the fact that the Bible tells, and with great clarity, that the earth was created a mere six thousand years ago". His many attempts to prove the Bible's accuracy lead, eventually, to a scientific expedition comprised of himself, Timothy Renshaw, a dilettante botanist and Dr Thomas Potter. Now jump back 30 years, to 1828, when a revolution of sorts is stirring on the island of Tasmania. Over the years white settlers have been encroaching on aboriginal land and relations have deteriorated into violence. At the heart of the action is Peevay, a young half-breed abandoned by his aborigine mother, who had been kidnapped and raped by a white escaped convict. Now his vengeful mother is leading a war against the whites, and Peevay, desperate to win her love, has joined her. Chapters from the past narrated by Peevay and augmented by letters and dispatches from white settlers alternate with the sections told by Kewley, Wilson, Renshaw and Potter. Eventually, of course, the two timelines intersect with momentous results. War, mutiny, shipwreck and not a little farce make English Passengers a gripping read, but it is Matthew Kneale's literary ventriloquism that renders it remarkable. In a novel with so many different points of view, the individuality of each voice stands out. There is, for instance, the mutinous Dr Potter, whose descent into paranoia and egomania results in diary entries reminiscent of a 19th-century psychotic Bridget Jones: "Manxmen = treacherous even to v. last. Self heard Brew (lashed to mainmast as per usual) instructing helmsman to steer N. N. W. when self questioned he re. this he claiming we = carried into Bay of Biscay by difficult sea currents + must set course to avoid Breton Peninsular. He pointing to distant point of land to N. N. E. claiming this = Brittany. Self = doubtful". Perhaps the most compelling voice in English Passengers belongs to Peevay, who paints a vivid picture of aboriginal life in a foreign tongue he nonetheless makes his own: When we sat so in the dark, after our eating, Tartoyen told us stories-secret stories that I will not say even now-about the moon and sun, and how everyone got made, from men and wallaby to seal and kangaroo rat and so. Also he told who was in those rocks and mountains and stars, and how they went there. Until, by and by, I could hear stories as we walked across the world, and divine how it got so, till I knew the world as if he was some family fellow of mine. By the close of this epic tale, the world Peevay knew has gone forever, and the lives of the Manx sailors and English passengers have been irrevocably changed. Based on real events in Tasmanian history, Matthew Kneale's novel delivers a home truth about Australia's brutal colonial past, even as it conveys the wonder and allure of the age of exploration. -Alix Wilber paperback. superbe à lire absolument., Penguin Books Ltd, 2001, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.: Freshwater Pr, 1971 Blue cloth, silver foil stamped cover and spine. no dust jacket. Very light shelf wear - book is crisp and tight, text is lightly yellowed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"., Freshwater Pr, 1971

Boyer, Dwight:

Cleveland, OH: Freshwater Press, 1974. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. A collection of twelve true adventures of ships and their crews on the Great Lakes. Journalist Dwight Boyer (1912 - 1978) is recognized as a marine historian of the Great Lakes. . First Edition, First Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine/None as Issued., Freshwater Press, 1974